Chapter 1
Theory that human beings learn new behaviors through a stimulus and response cycle (Skinner, 1957)
What is Behaviorism?
This suggests that prior knowledge shapes our expectations and understanding of what we hear.
What is schema theory?
Rothstein and Santana (2011) suggest this technique for turning questioning in the classroom over to students
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What is IT?
BICS is the acronym
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills?
These activities require that students exchange information in order to complete a task
A program has determined these for each level (these may be based on state or national standards or benchmarks)
What is learning outcomes?
What is Chicken Feed?
What is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency?
Listening strategy which involves listening more globally and trying to understand the overall meaning of what we hear
What is top-down processing?
This can have a tremendous impact on learner success with a lesson
What is teacher talk?
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What is Victor?
Identity, investment, and agency are all tied to this, which is highly complex and varies from person to person
What is motivation?
The purpose for which is to transmit factual information
What is transactional dialogue?
Rebecca Oxford (1990) proposes these two types of strategies
What are indirect and direct?
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What is Alabama?
This describes how members of minority cultures adapt to a dominant culture, a process which involves an understanding of beliefs, norms, and behaviors of the new culture, without letting go of the first culture (Scarcella,1990)
What is Acculturation?
The ability to make oneself understood
What is intelligibility?
This is a type of approach, where a teacher begins with class materials and activities, then builds the lesson from there (Richards 2013)
Fear of Halloween
What is Samhainophobia?